average serves a sentence of less than six years according to Nancy Jacobs. Six years behind bars for taking the life of another person! Six years of paying taxes to feed the mouth of a person who not caring for others took the life of somebody. Want some statistics? Well according to Justice for All, Six percent of the young adults paroled since 1978 who were convicted of murder were arrested for murder again within six years of their release. So what was the point of arresting them in the first place only to release them after a measly six years of prison time? If these people would have be executed the first time they were captured and convicted of murder, we would have prevented many murders of innocent people.We need to stop these repeating murders but it seems that our justice system almost helps them continue their horrendous acts by locking them up for awhile then releasing them all over again. Although the death penalty is a deterrent, it is not nearly as strong a deterrent as it would be were it implemented more often. The deterrence theory states that in order for a crime to be deterred, justice must be swift, severe, and certain. With numerous appeals, the death penalty is not swift. In fact, the average amount of time spent on death row before being executed is ten years, this is according to Nancy Jacobs. So again there is a minimum of another 10 years of tax payers dollars for supporting the criminals on death row. Why dont we just kill them! Now to go along with those ten years how about these number for you; according to the World Almanac of 1995, between the years of 1977 to the present the execution rate per murder is .055 percent. This means that for every 1800 murders only one person is executed. Okay like Ive said throughout this essay, why do we continue to allow this? Why dont we just get rid of this problem. I strongly believe that if the capital punishment was really and truly enforced there w...
